Jigsaw Collaboration 2

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How Groups Work

  • Successful groups promote:
    • Student exchanges that enhance reasoning and higher order thinking
    • Cognitive processing such as rehersing, organizing, and integrating information
    • Perspective taking and accomodation to others' ideas
    • Acceptance and encouragement among those involved in work

  • For Groups to succeed educators must consider:

  • 1. Group Norms

      • pretraining for cooperation
      • listening and resolving conflict skills
      • teaching students to appreciate the skills and abilities of others
      • using rewards that promote interdependency

  • 2. Tasks

      • When tasks entail problem solving and involve more then one answer
      • students use critical thinking to explian problem solutions and phenomena
      • students make arguments to justify their thought processes

  • 3. Giving and Seeking Help

      • Help giving can benefit even high achievers
      • Help seekers do not always benefit from the help they get
      • Suggestions:
      • help students by crafting good explanations, giving examples, creating analogies, using multiple representations

  • 4. Accountability


    • Individual accountability and group rewards ensure cooperation and ensures that one person doesnt do all of the work


  • 5. Group Composition


    • Groups are successful when members are drawn from high and middle or middle and low achivement levels